The Second World War was an incubator of aeronautical innovation, a time when the skies were turned into a testing ground of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1944 'Spirit of Kent' Spitfire on the tarmac at Biggin Hill - Julian Simmonds for The Daily Telegraph On a bright Wednesday ...

Summary: Recent months have seen several tragic military aircraft incidents. An F-35 Lightning II and an F-16 Fighting Falcon both crashed in New Mexico, while a vintage Supermarine Spitfire from the ...

LONDONLONDON — A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said. The ministry confirmed ...

A metal detectorist is trying to find the family of a WWII pilot after finding 1,500 pieces of his downed Spitfire in woodlands. Danny Jones stumbled across the 1942 crash site near Henley-on-Thames, ...

Ronald David Scott was born on October 20, 1917, to a Scottish father, Roy Douglas Scott (a Boer War veteran and a dragoon in World War I and one of the first referees in Argentine rugby), and an ...

To mark the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the legendary fighter, a Spitfire took to the skies with various ...

(CNN) — A British Royal Air Force pilot has died after the World War II era Spitfire he was flying crashed into a field in England. The RAF announced Saturday the pilot had died in a “tragic accident” ...